Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 4
The children of Conall got the upper hand, and they killed the king's big son.
Who acts: children · What happens: get, kill · To what, where: upper hand, big son
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Conall Yellowclaw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 children | det |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 got | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Conall | case |
| 4 | Conall | Conall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 children | nmod |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hand | det |
| 7 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hand | amod |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 killed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 killed | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 killed | nsubj |
| 12 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 son | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 king | case |
| 16 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 son | amod |
| 17 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 killed | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the children of Conall | the upper hand | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hand=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | kill | past | children = child | the king's big son | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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